Presets don't work (Rectangle tool)

[N A]

1. Using the Rectangle tool, I created a rectangle with my required settings (no fill, red stroke, 2px).
2. On the Rectangle sub-toolbar, I clicked the cog icon and selected Create Preset.
3. Typed a name ("Red Box 2px") and clicked OK.
4. Created another rectangle and changed the stroke colour to blue.
5. Clicked the cog icon and... Create Preset is greyed out.

I cannot save any new rectangle presets. If I select my blue rectangle, click the cog and click the icon for my previously saved Red Box 2px preset, the rectangle stays blue, so I cannot apply a preset either. So how do I make use of presets?

The only way to re-enable the Create Preset button is to go into Manage Presets and delete my first preset, so I can't build a collection of presets. Are the preset functions broken, unintuitive, or am I missing something? The help page for the Rectangle tool says simply:
"Presets—click to display a pop-up panel from which you may select an existing preset (if any are available) or create a new preset.", so that's no help.

[walt.farrell]

That does seem to be how it works. The Presets for a shape seem to be distinguished by the other Context Toolbar settings to the right of the Preset button. And you can only have 1 Preset with the same combination of those settings. The stroke/fill values are saved with the Preset, but are not used to distinguish one shape Preset from another.

I do not know if that's how it is intended to work. Perhaps someone will know if there are any old bugs related to this, or if it's intended.

In the meantime, you might consider using Assets for this case.

[N A]

@walt.farrell Thanks for checking this. The presets function seems so non-functional I could not believe it was working as intended.

[stokerg]

On 3/7/2023 at 4:02 PM, walt.farrell said:

I do not know if that's how it is intended to work. Perhaps someone will know if there are any old bugs related to this, or if it's intended.

 

This is working as intended.  As you've pointed out, a Preset can't share the same settings as another preset.  

 

On 3/7/2023 at 4:13 PM, N A said:

The presets function seems so non-functional I could not believe it was working as intended.

We are always open to Feature Suggestions on how things can be improved, so please feel free to make a post in the Feature Requests section of the Forums.

[carl123]

On 3/7/2023 at 4:02 PM, walt.farrell said:

The stroke/fill values are saved with the Preset

I don't think they are. It's only the actual shape of the preset that is saved

If the OP wants to routinely apply set strokes and fills to objects, they should be creating and using styles in the Styles panel (The styles are in fact the presets the OP is looking for)

E.g.

No fill, Red Stroke 2px
No fill, Blue Stroke, 2px
Green fill, Orange Stroke, 5px

The benefit of Styles is that they can be used on any shape not just rectangles

 

 

 

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

On 3/9/2023 at 7:47 AM, carl123 said:

I don't think they are. It's only the actual shape of the preset that is saved

Thanks. You're right. I must have been confused in my testing the other day.